List of members of Lincoln's Inn
The Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn, commonly known as Lincoln's Inn, is one of the four Inns of Court (professional associations for barristers and judges) in London. Following is a list of some of the notable members of Lincoln's Inn.
Deceased members
- Mohammad Ali Jinnah, (1876) founder and first Governor General of Pakistan
- A. T. M. Mustafa, (1925) Federal Minister of Pakistan and Cricketer
- S. T. Desai, (1927) Chief Justice of Gujarat and Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India
- Sir Muhammad Iqbal (Allama Iqbal), (1877) Muslim poet, philosopher and National poet of Pakistan
- H. H. Asquith, (1852) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith
- Mirza Hameedullah Beg, (1913) Chief Justice of India
- Richard Bellewe, (1575) legal reporter
- Sir Thomas Berkeley, M.P.
- Kader Bhayat, Minister of Commerce in Mauritius
- Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, 4th President and 11th Prime Minister of Pakistan
- Henry Buckley, 1st Baron Wrenbury, (1854) a PC and QC who wrote the first edition of Buckley on the Companies Act. He served as a Judge of the High Court of Justice and as a Lord Justice of Appeal. He was then admitted to the Privy Council and elevated to the peerage as Baron Wrenbury
- Richard Cromwell (1626)
- Barun De, (Matriculation: 1954), Chairman, West Bengal Heritage Commission
- Rauf Raif Denktas (1924), vice president of the Republic of Cyprus (1973–1974); founding president of Northern Cyprus
- Lord Denning (1899)
- Frans Dove, Youngest man called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn
- Sir Maurice Drake DFC (1923)
- John Donne (1572)
- Sir John Fortescue,(1394) Lord Chief Justice under King Henry VI of England and jurist
- Monomohun Ghose, (1844) the first Indian to practice at the Calcutta High Court
- Sir Padamji Ginwala (1897) Parsi Barrister and economist from India
- William Ewart Gladstone, (1809) four times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone, (1907) former Lord Chancellor
- William Hakewill, M.P., lawyer and antiquary (1574)
- Chaim Herzog, (1918) sixth President of Israel
- Mohammad Hidayatullah, (1905) Chief Justice of India.
- Alfred Paget Humphry (1875), rifle shooter and winner of the 1871 Queen's Prize
- Mustafa Kamal, Chief Justice of Bangladesh
- Makhdoom Khusro Bakhtiar, former minister of planning development & special reforms, minister of national food security of Pakistan, minister of economic affairs of Pakistan
- Sir Muhammad Zafarullah Khan, (1893) Foreign Minister of Pakistan
- Sir Baron Jayatilaka, (1868) Minister for Home Affairs, Ceylon
- Javed Iqbal (Judge), Senior Judge Supreme Court of Pakistan
- Mithan Jamshed Lam, (1898) the first Indian woman Barrister, former Sheriff of Mumbai and Padma Bhushan awardee
- Thomas Langlois Lefroy (1776), Chief Justice of Ireland from 1855 to 1866
- Sir Thomas More (1478)
- John Henry Newman, cardinal (1801)
- William Osgoode, (1754) first Chief Justice of Ontario after whom Osgoode Hall (and by proxy Osgoode Hall Law School) was named
- Apa Saheb Bala Saheb Pant, Indian freedom fighter and diplomat[1]
- Sir James Peiris, (1856) the first elected head of the Legislative Council of Ceylon
- William Pitt the Younger, twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1759)
- Thomas Powys (1794) who was the 2nd Baron Lilford
- William Prynne, 17th century pamphleteer and opponent of Archbishop William Laud (1600)
- Francis Rogers, (1791) judge and author
- William Roper (1496)
- Subimal Chandra Roy, (1971) Judge of the Supreme Court of India.
- Shankar Dayal Sharma, (1918) 9th President of The Republic of India
- Hon. Kenneth George Smith, Chief Justice of Jamaica (1973-1984)
- Sir Nicholas Steward, (1618) 1st Baronet of Hartley Mauditt, MP Lymington, Justice of the Peace (1660) and Deputy Lieutenant of Hampshire (1673 to 1688), Chamberlain of the Exchequer
- Gnanendramohan Tagore, first Asian to be called at the bar
- Margaret Thatcher, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- Sir Nicholas Conyngham Tindal (1776), Chief Justice of the Common Pleas
- Edward Vernon Utterson (c. 1776), lawyer, one of the Six Clerks in Chancery, literary antiquary, collector and editor
- Sir Francis Walsingham (1532)
- Michael Mortimer Wheeler (1915–1992), QC and Deputy High Court Judge, elected Bencher (1967–) and Treasurer (1986–) of the Inn
- William Wingfield, Chief Justice of the Brecon Circuit (1772)
- John Woolley (1846), cricketer
- Sir Anerood Jugnauth, former Prime Minister and President of Mauritius
- Charles Gray QC
Living members
- Hammad Azhar, Member of National Assembly of Pakistan from Lahore, Former Federal Minister for Economic Affairs, Current Federal Minister for Industries and Production
- Brian Gill, Lord Gill, former Lord President and Lord Justice General of Scotland
- Asaduddin Owaisi, Member Of Indian Parliament from Hyderabad, And President of All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen
- Ahmed Ebrahim, justice of the Zimbabwe and Swaziland supreme courts
- Azlan Shah of Perak, former Lord President of Malaysia, Sultan of Perak Darul Ridzuan
- Basdeo Panday, Fifth Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago and first Indo-Trinidadian Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago
- Sajjad Ali Shah, Chief Justice Of Pakistan
- Adnan Sami, World Famous Singer, Musician and Pianist
- Dr. Kamal Hossain, former Foreign and Law Minister of Bangladesh.
- Muhammad Jamiruddin Sircar, former Acting President, Former Speaker, Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs, Bangladesh
- Chan Sek Keong, former Chief Justice of Singapore.
- Robert Walker, Baron Walker of Gestingthorpe, former Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
- Martin Lee, Hong Kong politician. Former leader of the Democratic Party
- Andrew Cheung, incumbent Chief Judge of the High Court of Hong Kong
- John Kufuor, President of Ghana from 2001 to 2009
- Mary Arden (judge), Lady Justice of Appeal of the Royal Courts of Justice
- David Neuberger, Baron Neuberger of Abbotsbury, former President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
- Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- Khalid Jawed Khan, Attorney General of Pakistan
- Makhdoom Ali Khan, former Attorney General of Pakistan
- Cherie Booth QC
- Raja Ashman Shah, Raja Kecil Tengah of Perak Darul Ridzuan (Malaysia)
- Rabinder Singh QC
- Ghulam Muhammad Khan Bhurgri, Pioneer of Pakistan Freedom Movement, first Barrister from Sindh
- Ajmal Mian, Barrister and Former Chief Justice of Pakistan
- Asif Saeed Khan Khosa, Senior Puisne Judge Supreme Court of Pakistan
- Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb, Justice Islamabad High Court
- Nor Hashimah Taib, Attorney General of Brunei